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Currently I'm trying to connect my rp4 to my windows 10 share file but I'm running into quite a few issues. I want to say too that I'm quite a novice when it comes to non-windows based machines so there may be some errors in my operation that I'm unable to see. Okay so I followed this guide...

I have two Debian 8 systems, which can connect via ethernet cable to a circuit board C (ip address: 10.0.0.100) Debian A: on boot, arp -a does not show the device at all. Upon 'ping 10.0.0.100', board C responds and the device is added to the arp registry on eth1. Debian B: on boot, arp -a...

Can I build a Linux PC with MSI CREATOR TRX40 and AMD Ryzen threadripper 3960x? Is there any performance or compatibility issues?

Sorry if this is in the wrong section for this post. I've got a BL460c blade server, which is currently booting into a MicroSD. On the MicroSD, I have burnt the iso image for Linux Ubuntu. It loads up fine and I'm presented with the main screen which asks whether I want to 'Test Ubuntu' without...

I have an old laptop running the latest version of Ubuntu that I use for projects. That laptop is connected to my WiFi router through a USB WiFi antenna. I have the default wireless card setup to share the USB WiFi connection through the hotspot feature in Settings. Everything works fine with...

Hello all, I am a Uni student in business analytics and I need a laptop. I was hopping you lovely people could help answer my question. Should I get a Chromebook or a PC for coding purposes? Which would be better?

I have a script I am working on that I need to cut out part of the output from a command. For example: #! /bin/bash blkid read -p "Enter the drive from the list above (example: /dev/sda1): " drive blkid | grep $drive # <-- This is where I am stuck. I want to sort out the UUID, PARTUUID, and...

Hi, I happen to have a 500GB HDD that won't open properly. It is detectable both under Windows and Ubuntu. So, I decided to follow the most common guide I found online, back it up. I use DDRescue to clone/copy whatever is possible to a 4TB HDD. After running it for 2d 22h 24m, the process...

Hey so i want to dual boot safely without loosing data. Is that possible?

Hello. I got an issue that is really bugging me for the past few days. I am trying to boot into Ubuntu system 20.04 LTS. However, every time I turn on, for about 5 seconds loading something it then suddenly shut down. It then automatically restart, loading and shutdown .. continue in a loop...

Hello, I have a Glorius Model O mouse, and I want to use it on Ubuntu Linux. Mouse is working fine, but the only thing I want to change id debounce time. I'm asking because there is no Model O software for Linux. It's only avaliable for Windows. Thanks for help!

When turned on the screen turns on but there is no output and the fans start to rotate but then stops and then the laptop restarts. One key recovery is not working and has the same result as above. Initially I thought something from bios might have been changed from the failed Linux install so...

As the title suggest, I'm having trouble trying to revive an old pre-built with Puppy Linux. The aforementioned pre-built is an Acer Aspire X3200 with the following specifications: Athlon II X2 4400+ 1.5Gb DDR2 No storage Nvidia GeForce 8200 See the idea is that this would be a media PC in the...

Can anyone help me with the Other 3.x or later Linux (64-bit) end of life date? Or end of support? If there is any. Thanks,

I currently have one hdd with dual boot windows and Linux, and a second ssd running HiveOS. The problem is I cannot select the other drive once I've booted up on either one of them. If I have previously loaded up the Windows/Linux drive I cannot select the HiveOS drive from the BIOS boot...

Hi, I'm considering to buy WD MyBook 4TB (Prod. #: WDBBGB0040HBK-SESN) as my backup drive, but the drive as default formatted with exFAT. My question is, since my OS is Linux Mint, is it safe (and will it work on my PC) if I formatted the drive with NTFS, since I want it work also on my TV...

I have a recent model of hp laptop "HP du1065tu" With i5 10210u and a 512 gb nvme... Today I tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for dual boot with pre-installed OEM windows 10.. I shrunk the C drive to get 100 gb unallocated for Ubuntu. After installing Ubuntu with 30 gb for root, 6 gb for swap...

I have a 240gb Sandisk Ultra II SSD that I had Windows on. Booting with the drive leads to the black windows loading screen with the little circle after BIOS for an eternity, followed by restarting. Recently I tried to install Linux on it, which brought up a series of errors, each of which...

Hi everyone. I tried to update from Xubuntu 20.04.1 LTS to 20.04.2, but for some reason, I can't easily do so. I executed the "sudo apt update" command before using these three specific upgrade commands: "sudo apt dist-upgrade," "sudo apt full-upgrade," and "sudo apt upgrade." The upgrade...

Hello, I'm looking for a bit of advice on creating a dual boot i have 3 drives. (C) 256gb SSD Drive/ Which is my boot drive for windows 10 this has all programs origin,steam etc on it and nothing else other then windows files (E) 500gb NVME Drive/ This is my gaming drive this has all my games...

I built a computer (as a server) a few months ago and was running windows. However, windows kept crashing and was corrupted. I thought of switching to a more stable OS like Linux mint or Ubuntu. When I flashed the ISO on to a USB and tried to install Linux Mint, it gave me the error (same result...

Hi! I'm really new into Linux and want to build myself a small Home/NAS server. The problem is that most of the NAS software I've seen (and understood) are OS's. So basically I install e.g. FreeNAS and that's it. There's the NAS server. But I want to use the server for other things aswell, like...

So this is the device: Lenovo y520-15ikbn I tried everything I think. I made a bootable UEFI usb drive with rufus (8GB USB Thumbdrive) with my windows 10 iso I have. I know this iso (with EFI folder) is perfectly fine because this is not the first system I tried to install windows with. I put...

As an experiment I created a Linux Mint system on a spare SSD and booted my PC with both my win 10 and Linux drives on SATA. I use the mobo F11 key to select what to boot from. There were problems. If I selected the Linux SSD itself I got a grub text screen. Then on the boot selection screen I...

I have decommissioned a Western Digital MyCloud EX4 and I need to wipe the 4 drives that lived in the NAS. I have a Sabrent SATA to USB connector and tried to wipe the drives from Ubuntu, but when viewing the drives with gdisk -l and lsusb, I could see a ton of errors, for some reason. I...

Hi Guys, I had an Intel motherboard and CPU and I Upgraded to the following: GIGABYTE B550 AORUS Elite v2 AMD Ryzen 7 3800X G.Skill TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) Sapphire 11265-67-20G Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB GDDR5 Cooler Master Watt 650 Watt The problem I am having is that I cannot install a...

I have been trying to run Undertale on increasingly old hardware. I had success on a Dell Inspiron 8600 using Puppy Linux. I am now trying to run the same exact OS and command on laptops with intel celeron ~300MHz processors. but when I run ./runner or sh run.sh it gives the error "Illegal...

Hello everyone! Recently, I've been having a recurring issue on Xubuntu 20.04 LTS where my desktop freezes up but I can move my mouse cursor around and access TTYs. Somebody told me that this issue has been happening with other Linux distros as well. I also found out that a bunch of people who...

About 2 weeks ago I decided to give Linux a try, so I installed elementary os. I didn't work out and I want to reinstall windows 10 the thing is that when I was in windows 10 I made a partition, I used that partition to save all my data so when I moved to Linux I didn't have to back up anything...

So basically i just built a NAS for myself, its a pretty ghetto machine but a NAS Basically i got the thing up and running and was able to do things like run linux in its live form off a USB drive before, but the NAS wasnt completed it had no cooling so the Hard drives started cooking in a few...

I'have installed Ubuntu on a pen drive USB of 32 GB, but I'm inexperienced (I have windows 10 in internal SSD) so I have a few questions: 1- Is there a drop of performance instead of installing it in the internal SSD? 2- Where do the files created with Ubuntu are saved? On the pen drive of 32...

So I just had to post this here because I couldn't find this solution anywhere else on the internet (unless I'm not looking hard enough) Quick backstory, I work at a basic phone/computer repair shop, and I have had a few customers come in with computers that wont boot, upon mounting the hard...

Hey, I have a system in which windows 7 32 bit is installed. I found out recently that the cpu is actually 64 bit (checked in the bios). So I tried installing a 64 bit operating system. As soon as it starts installing the system gets turned off (not even going to the setup menu). I tried both...

So basically I tried every mainstream distro out there (Fedora, Manjaro, Debian even ubuntu) now I'm trying to install arch and it gets stuck on that boot up screen every time I try to install it(picture related) The device is a laptop: Acer Aspire 3 A315-23-R5RD 15,6" AMD Ryzen 5 3500U - 8GB...

Hello everyone. I recently tried to install Xubuntu 20.04 onto my system, but for some reason, the installer doesn't detect my 1TB hard drive at all. It only recognizes the flash drive that I'm using to install Xubuntu with. The same thing happens when I'm trying to install Mint as well, but...

I found an old Acer Aspire laptop which I dissambled, cleaned and made little modifications recently to make it alive again. Changed LCD cable, upgraded ram from 3 to 6, replaced the disk with a 120 gb ssd. CPU is I3. I am very happy with Ubuntu Mate on my real old tablet pc. My Aspire' s...

I bought a 12tb easystore and it reads fine through windows so I shucked it and was going to put it in the NAS I am making. (Note: it also works fine through my inateck dock on my windows pc) But when I put it in my NAS alongside a 500gb ssd and another 12tb it doesn't show up. It doesn't even...

Hello everyone! Recently, I've been looking for some type of software that allows me to create a customized version of a Linux distro along with my settings and tweaks made to it. In my case for multiple computers, what I've been currently doing has been a two-step process: #1 - I deploy a...

Hi! Some time ago I got this used GPU, the guy I bought said it was from a office but almost sure it was from a mining rig. After some time using it I got the pattern like that in the image down (it's not a screenshot from my pc, is from a post on this forum but it is exactly the same pattern)...

Building a new PC build and wanna go all out triple booting Windows 10, Linux, and OS X. I'm wanting to do it natively as I have the storage for it. I know kvm is an option, and if it's a better one than I'm willing to go that route but how do I make them all boot natively?